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AGF : poemproducer<p>some great sound shit in this</p><p>acoustic oscillation between galaxies</p><p><a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/mindscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindscape</span></a> <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/spae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spae</span></a> <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/darkmatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkmatter</span></a> <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/galaxies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>galaxies</span></a> <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/clusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clusters</span></a> <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/soundscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soundscience</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/03/31/310-marc-kamionkowski-on-dark-energy-and-cosmic-anomalies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">preposterousuniverse.com/podca</span><span class="invisible">st/2025/03/31/310-marc-kamionkowski-on-dark-energy-and-cosmic-anomalies/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Kamala Harris Proposes Major Initiative To Help Millions Of Seniors — And Their Caregivers</p><p>The Democratic nominee has a plan to help the "sandwich generation," aging Americans and people with disabilities</p><p>Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Tuesday proposed a major new initiative: <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> <br>✅to cover the cost of 💥long-term care at home.</p><p>👍Such a plan could mean the option of staying at home, rather than in a nursing facility, for the millions of seniors and people with disabilities who need help with the daily tasks of life.</p><p>It could also mean physical and financial relief <br>― and new opportunities for school or work outside the home <br>― for the millions of working-age Americans who today provide so much of that care on their own without much in the way of outside assistance.</p><p>If the proposed legislation is enacted, such a program would represent a substantial boost in 💖federal support for caregiving and, by any measure, <br>one of the largest one-time increases in American history.</p><p>Harris made her announcement during an appearance on “The View,” the nation’s top-rated daytime talk show, <br>and presented the initiative as a way to help the “sandwich generation” <br>― that is, the working adults who have aging parents while still caring for children. </p><p>Roughly a quarter of the American population falls into that category, according to Pew Research.</p><p>“There are so many people in our country who are right in the middle <br>― they’re taking care of their kids and they’re taking care of their aging parents <br>― and it’s just almost impossible to do it all,” Harris said. </p><p>“Especially if they work, we’re finding that so many are then having to leave their job, which means losing a source of income, not to mention the emotional stress.”<br><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-medicare-home-care_n_6704a28ce4b0b12bd23f785f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harr</span><span class="invisible">is-medicare-home-care_n_6704a28ce4b0b12bd23f785f</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>Your <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/guide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guide</span></a> to the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/presidentialcandidates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidentialcandidates</span></a>’ <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/views" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>views</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> — <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DrugCosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrugCosts</span></a>, The fate of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AffordableCareAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AffordableCareAct</span></a> — and who would handle it best — has continued to be contested turf in the final weeks of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/presidentialcampaign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidentialcampaign</span></a>. </p><p>Trump has focused on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cutting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spending</span></a>, he said, while Harris has emphasized <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/coverage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coverage</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/affordability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>affordability</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-10-03/2024-election-harris-trump-healthcare-voter-guide" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/politics/story/202</span><span class="invisible">4-10-03/2024-election-harris-trump-healthcare-voter-guide</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>After a brutal 2023, the vibes around <a href="https://c.im/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>self</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/driving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>driving</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cars</span></a> are improving. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cruise</span></a>, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a <a href="https://c.im/tags/horrific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrific</span></a> San Francisco <a href="https://c.im/tags/crash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crash</span></a> last fall, has <a href="https://c.im/tags/rebooted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebooted</span></a> under new management, </p><p>while rival <a href="https://c.im/tags/Waymo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waymo</span></a> is <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles<br> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> is promising a new <a href="https://c.im/tags/robotaxi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robotaxi</span></a> service.</p><p>Although Americans say they remain <a href="https://c.im/tags/wary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wary</span></a> of autonomous driving, <br>boosters insist there is nothing to fear. <br>In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both <a href="https://c.im/tags/safer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safer</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/cleaner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cleaner</span></a> than the status quo, <br>a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich nations.</p><p>Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a <a href="https://c.im/tags/logical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logical</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/flaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flaw</span></a>. <br>As a classic 19th-century theory known as a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jevons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jevons</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/paradox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paradox</span></a> explains, <br>even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly<br> — an enormous “if”<br> — they are🆘 likely to increase total <a href="https://c.im/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> and crash <a href="https://c.im/tags/deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deaths</span></a>, <br>simply because ⭐️people will use them so much.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386</span><span class="invisible">/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Our universe is merging with 'baby universes', causing it to expand, new theoretical study suggests<br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/our-universe-is-merging-with-baby-universes-causing-it-to-expand-new-theoretical-study-suggests" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/space/cosmolog</span><span class="invisible">y/our-universe-is-merging-with-baby-universes-causing-it-to-expand-new-theoretical-study-suggests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/merging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>merging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/babyuniverses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>babyuniverses</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a></p>
eMSequel (MPD2) 🌐<p>I'm new to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>; I look <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forward</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> new things and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sharing</span></a> things with others. I have some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/college" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>college</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> and a versatile <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experience</span></a>. I am in the process of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horizons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horizons</span></a>, so to speak. I hope to gain <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/followers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>followers</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/follow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>follow</span></a> interesting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/influences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influences</span></a>. I love cats and dogs. I enjoy making new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/friends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>friends</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>networking</span></a>. I like to go for short walks.</p><p>Thank you for taking the time to read my post. Best wishes to you!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intro</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Di_Libu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Di_Libu</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>A World of Slaves:<br>Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.</p><p>Nancy MacLean notes that when the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kochs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kochs</span></a>’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of <a href="https://c.im/tags/shutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shutting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/down" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>down</span></a> government, <a href="https://c.im/tags/destroying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destroying</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> unions, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rolling</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/back" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>back</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>services</span></a> that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University. </p><p>Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?<br>It wasn’t. </p><p>MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.<br>MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a <a href="https://c.im/tags/hostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hostile</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/takeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>takeover</span></a> that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society. </p><p>Peter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Temin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Temin</span></a>, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lafer</span></a> of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why. </p><p>MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.</p><p>She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like <a href="https://c.im/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatization</span></a>. </p><p>Efforts to “reform” <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Social</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree. </p><p>Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, <a href="https://c.im/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weakening</span></a> pro-public forces and <a href="https://c.im/tags/enhancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enhancing</span></a> the <a href="https://c.im/tags/lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbying</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to <a href="https://c.im/tags/dismantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dismantle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> and make way for a return to <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a>. </p><p>The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.</p><p>MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point. </p><p>The <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a> require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people. <br>This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powers</span></a> “to control the resultant popular anger.” <br>The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/aggressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aggressive</span></a> use of <a href="https://c.im/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>.</p><p>👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill <a href="https://c.im/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisons</span></a> with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a>? ☑️They could, and have. </p><p>👉Might they engineer a <a href="https://c.im/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retirement</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crisis</span></a> by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done. </p><p>👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign <a href="https://c.im/tags/forced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forced</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arbitration</span></a> agreements? ☑️Check. </p><p>👉Gut <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.</p><p>👉Would they even refuse children <a href="https://c.im/tags/clean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clean</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>? ☑️Actually, yes.</p><p>MacLean notes that in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flint</span></a>, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like <a href="https://c.im/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poisoned</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge. <br>In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to <a href="https://c.im/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lead</span></a>, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.</p><p>Libertarian economist Tyler <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cowen</span></a> has provided an economic <a href="https://c.im/tags/justification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justification</span></a> for this kind of <a href="https://c.im/tags/brutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brutality</span></a>, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.</p><p>To many this sounds grotesquely <a href="https://c.im/tags/inhumane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inhumane</span></a>, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America. </p><p>In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of <a href="https://c.im/tags/heartlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heartlessness</span></a> made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be. </p><p>MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as <a href="https://c.im/tags/subordinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subordinate</span></a> members of the species, akin to…<a href="https://c.im/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> who are dependent.’”</p><p>Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies? <br>Then that means <a href="https://c.im/tags/you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>you</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ineteconomics.org/perspectives</span><span class="invisible">/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america</span></a></p>